Welcome to the home of Oracle Solaris open source projects on java.net!

This project will be a hub to provide developer information and resources for the open source projects
that are included in the Oracle Solaris operating system. Here you will find access to the source
code for the modifications Oracle has made to the many 3rd party free and open source components
such as the Apache web server, Python and Perl run time environments, and many other GNU command
line utilities. Some of these modules have been licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).

Oracle Solaris Projects

Development of OpenStack support for Solaris Virtualization Technologies, support for the OpenStack Services to run and be hosted from Solaris, and integration of all the above into the Solaris product.

Zones are an operating system abstraction for partitioning systems, allowing multiple applications to
run in isolation from each other on the same physical hardware. This isolation prevents processes
running within a zone from monitoring or affecting processes running in other zones, seeing each
other's data, or manipulating the underlying hardware.

This project provides the Solaris build and packaging of the X Window System, the glue that holds
together the desktop on Unix and Linux systems. X provides the layer between the hardware devices and
the desktops such as GNOME and KDE.

The Service Management Facility (SMF) is responsible for managing services and service start order in the
Oracle Solaris operating system. scfdot reads the service names and dependencies from the Service
Configuration Facility (SCF) repository and writes a file which the dot program from the graphviz
package can render into a graph.

LibMicro is a portable set of microbenchmarks that many Solaris engineers used during Solaris 10 development
to measure the performance of various system and library calls. LibMicro was developed by Bart Smaalders and
Phil Harman as part of their If Linux is faster it's a Solaris bug performance campaign. LibMicro is Open
Source and uses the CDDL license.

You can visit the above project pages to find out more information including developer mailing lists,
source code repositories, and wiki spaces.